As Lily mentioned, in the interests of bringing you all the best news, we recently sacrificed our bodies to science by making a pilgrimage into the city to sample the eateries at the Chelsea Market.  Somehow this turned into a shopping expedition as well.  If this surprises anyone, well, you don’t know the two of us nearly well enough yet!

Now, the idea was originally that we were going to grab lunch and not shop, but Lily wanted to take a stroll down 14th Street past the stores between 9th and 10th Avenues on the way. This is possibly the most dangerous stretch of the Meatpacking District for the susceptible.  Frankly, very few of those stores are at all affordable, but drooling through the windows at the Alexander McQueen and Hugo Boss never hurt a girl, did it?

Although we managed to make it safely past Moschino and La Perla without doing more than fogging up the big plate windows, Ten Thousand Things was too much to resist.  For those who aren’t familiar with them already, Ten Thousand Things is a luxuriously organic jewelry line designed by David Rees and Ron Anderson.  Ten Thousand Things is all about fluid lines and shimmering precious and semi-precious gemstones in enticingly irregular modern pieces.  The Ten Thousand Things store on 14th Street also carries Annette Ferdinandsen’s equally lovely botantically-inspired jewelry line.  The store itself is a long, narrow space that’s dimly lit and faintly reminiscent of being underwater, with the jewels the only source of brilliance.  Needless to say, I fell in love with something.  Yeah, I’m susceptible where jewelry is concerned.  Jewelry and chocolate.  This bracelet was, well, amazing:

Ten Thousand Things Opal Buttercup Bracelet

Now, I wasn’t actually bowled over by this when I first saw the picture of it, but it is GORGEOUS in person.  Stunning.  A possible candidate for my birthday present for this year?  Hm. Lily, while seriously taken with several items, wisely resisted the temptation to try anything on.  Smart girl.

After that, we strolled on to Jeffrey.  To be honest, Jeffrey has never been a place where I’ve spent much money.  They have some seriously beautiful stuff there, but it’s also seriously expensive, and the back area where the women’s clothing is located has always struck me as a little too minimalist, and slightly industrial.  Not inappropriate, but not really me.  That said, though, they have some gorgeous (out of my price range) shoes, and some even more gorgeous (and equally out of my price range) jewelry.  And again (after drooling over the Christian Louboutin), I fell in love, this time with an Irene Neuwirth pendant.  I can’t find a picture of this one online, and sadly the folks at Jeffrey wouldn’t let me take a picture of it, but it was a vertical stack  of five or six massive opals in vibrant blue and green.  Stunning.  Here’s another one of her pendants in the same family.

Irene Neuwirth Opal Pendant

Sadly, it was also $22,000.  Distinctly not a candidate for my birthday.  I’m afraid my next spare $22K (ha) is already spoken for by this lovely:

My true love (unrequited), the Steinway Professional K-52 Upright

The Meatpacking District?  Fun but hazardous to the paycheck.  We escaped.  On to the Chelsea Market!

To be continued…

Tags: Irene Neuwirth, Jeffrey, jewelry, Meatpacking District, Ten Thousand Things

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